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On the Narrative Literature Value of Guoyu from a Viewpoint of Novel

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2016, (41), pp.97-119
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2016..41.005
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2016

Je, Hae-sung 1

1계명대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Guoyu(國語) is different from Zuozhuan(左傳) in that it is not a systematic chronological history, but is the China’s first part of records of some important historical events in the history of literature. The book consists of 21 volumes, which respectively recorded Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu and Yue in the eight fragments of history and each fragment of is not affiliated. As Guoyu mainly recorded the language, chronicle is simple and reasoning is plain. But from the literary perspective, the narrative of some chapters are complete in the head and the tail and contains not only reasonable imagination composition and the aphorisms rich in vivid figures of speech and implications, but also more detailed characterizations of the character. Thus it greatly raised the integrity of the plot and the vividness of characters and improved the value of Guoyu as the narrative literature. These chapters can be a literary short story, which has a certain composition and factors. As an important part of the history of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the elements of these novels should be paid more attention by the scholars of the later generations. This thesis is about to discuss these narrative characteristics and narrative literature value of Guoyu from a viewpoint of novel.

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